Moore's most iconic work in comics came in his Watchmen series.The series functioned like a dark satirization of the superhero.
Arguably the most popular Elseworlds Batman story is Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
The most iconic Vertigo series that DC published was its flagship The Sandman, written by the great Neil Gaiman.
Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Year One is among the most definitive comic book origins and evolution to a crescendo.
The Killing Joke was a 46-page one-shot rather than a fleshed-out series, the story told is impressively dense.
V for Vendetta tackles a variety of heavy political themes in a dense, elaborate story full of moral grays and extremes.
Expanding to the greater Justice League, Kingdom Come is a landmark comic in DC's pantheon of stories.
An engrossing crime saga that reminds fans how masterfully grounded, street-level stories can be done.
Preacher was one such cult-hit, with the story centered around a grim supernatural/religious disaster plaguing a small Texas town.
Dark Horse's Sin City is an acclaimed neo-noir story set in a bleak, authoritarian-run town in the United States.